KEXP DJ Supreme La Rock on Poppeye’s Lost Gem “Be My Baby”

In Our Headphones

KEXP

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🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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This week we have selections from DJ Supreme La Rock, host of KEXP’s Sunday Soul. Supreme sits down with Evie Stokes to talk about soul, digging for new music and the Seattle soul group Poppyeye – a lost gem from 1978 that’s recently been rediscovered and reissued.

Hosted by Evie Stokes
Produced by Lilly Ana Fowler
Mastered by: William Myers
Editorial director: Larry Mizell Jr.

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0:19.7	From Independent Music Station KexP, you're listening to In Our Headphones,
0:24.5	a podcast about the songs that we just can't stop listening to.
0:27.8	This is Eby Stokes, and this week I'm talking with DJ Supreme LaRoc.
0:33.0	Hi, Supreme.
0:33.7	How you doing?
0:34.4	I'm so happy you're here.
0:35.6	Me too.
0:36.2	It's nice to see you.
0:37.0	It's overdue.
0:37.5	And you host Sunday Soul now on Sunday evenings. Tell me a little bit about that show.
0:43.9	It's just a wide variety of soul funk, disco, boogie, everything, you know, kind of that fits together in the genre.
0:51.2	And, you know, like we talked before this, I really like to dig and discover you know where i'm
0:57.2	about music discovery and there's just so much out there's so much music in the world like don't
1:02.9	matter what you're never going to have it all or hear at all no matter how hard you try yeah but
1:07.9	you could have a good start well you're good at good at the digging. I think you've had years
1:11.4	of experience for that. Yes. Yeah. All right, you chose a new track to share with us today. What's your pick?
1:19.9	It's called Popeye, and it's actually out of Seattle. And I have this theory that no matter when it was
1:27.2	released, if you've never heard it before, it's new.
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